You can have indeterminacy even in classical Newtonian mechanics. Put a ball on top of the right shaped hill and there is no way in principle to tell when it would start rolling—a femtosecond or a billion eons from now http://dsbaero.engin.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/441/2019/06/BhatIndeterminacy.pdf …
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That's interesting but its not femtosecond or billion years.pic.twitter.com/Ivv1nV9N9o
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Here's a less mathy explanation of the same thing. A ball can sit on a peak for an arbitrary amount of time before it starts moving. http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/index.html …
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